I BELIEVE IN GOD, THE FATHER ALMIGHTY.

I do believe that from an ALL Mighty, ALL Knowing, ALL Loving, Father-Mother Source, greater than our human minds can conceive, we receive our life, our consciousness, our nature—our supply for every need.

MAKER OF HEAVEN AND EARTH.

That this Supreme Life Source is the Creator of all things in our world, both visible and invisible.

AND IN JESUS CHRIST, HIS SON OUR LORD.

And that each human child is a son, whose consciousness may become the abiding place—the Holy Temple—of Christ, the Lord Self, even as it was with our beloved Jesus.

BORN OF THE VIRGIN MARY.

And that from the Father-Mother Consciousness, the Virgin or Primordial Substance, all forms are born and unmanifested.

SUFFERED UNDER PONTIUS PILATE.

And that the Christ, the Lord within each of us, awaits (suffers) until the day when the rulership of the human self shall cease.

WAS CRUCIFIED, DEAD AND BURIED.

That the Lord, the Christ Self, does seem to have died from man’s consciousness over a period covering aeons of time, until the Christ within man, his true Self, was literally buried in material vibrations and consciousness.

DESCENDED INTO HELL.

But, though man forgot his Divine heritage, nevertheless the Loving Christ remained deep within him; while in the nethermost states, called hell, man’s true consciousness awaited his awakening.

THE THIRD DAY HE ROSE AGAIN FROM THE DEAD AND ASCENDED INTO HEAVEN.

And that in the Third Age from the dawn of manifestation, the beloved Master Jesus revealed the Way to the Kingdom of God’s Consciousness, by His Life and Teachings. By the glory of His Love, The Christ, then being once more revealed to the world in the man Jesus of Nazareth, awakened man and led him back to his heavenly Father’s home.

AND SITTETH ON THE RIGHT HAND OF GOD THE FATHER ALMIGHTY.

That, even as a human son is his father’s right hand, or helper, so the Christ expresses the Perfect Will of The Father in and through every reborn son in heaven and on earth.

FROM THENCE HE SHALL COME TO JUDGE THE QUICK AND THE DEAD.

That the Lord Christ within knows all things, knows those who are souls abiding in Him, and those who are still bound by the claims of the world and the flesh.

AND I BELIEVE IN THE HOLY GHOST.

I believe in the Blessed Life Spirit of our Father God within all things.

THE HOLY CATHOLIC CHURCH AND COMMUNION OF SAINTS.

I believe that the True Church is of Christ alone, is not of earth, but is comprised of all Loving Human Hearts in which He ALONE dwells. Which Church indeed must be Holy. And I believe He communes through every soul abiding in Him . . . throughout eternity.

FORGIVENESS OF SINS . . . RESURRECTION OF THE BODY.

I believe that when we cease to commit errors caused by ignorance of the Perfection of our true Being, and in the Christ Love outwardly live the consciousness of our oneness in Him, all else is over. His Love dissolves all error, overcomes all, forgives all . . . replaces all. By Love the consciousness of every cell of being in the body is RAISED!

LIFE EVERLASTING, WORLD WITHOUT END. AMEN.

I do believe that this Perfect Life penetrates and endures through all worlds, through the Infinity of the Universe and the entire Cosmos. Through all states of consciousness, through all forms both visible and invisible. Life everlasting manifests in what to our human minds seems to be “worlds without end.” Glory inconceivable! I ALONE AM!

We therefore pray—

Almighty Father-God, we would humbly and in reverence give the love and joy of our hearts evermore to Thee, together with Those Who everlastingly sing Thy praise . . . within the Divine Radiance of Thy Celestial SON-SUN; in the realization that even as HE is ONE with THEE, so in giving our lives and hearts to Thy Service . . . THOU ALONE shalt be made manifest in us. AMEN.

THIS morning when I entered my kitchen I saw a small sugar bowl contained a great number of tiny ants. I leaned over the bowl and said firmly (instead of taking it to the sink and drowning them as I usually do): “Go home NOW! Everyone of you! If you do not, it will be your own fault if something dreadful happens to you!”

I went out front to the porch where I usually go to read my morning lesson, and have a quiet communion with God as He reveals Himself to me in the cool, refreshing morning hour. Perhaps I was away half an hour; when I returned to the kitchen, I looked at the bowl, and—NOT ONE ANT REMAINED. ALL WERE GONE COMPLETELY OUT OF SIGHT!

I was so astonished that it was funny and I had to laugh and laugh at myself. My prayer, or spoken word had been instantly and completely understood and obeyed, and yet—I WAS ASTONISHED THAT IT WAS SO!

What is the matter with us? It is a wonder that we ever do get any answers when our Faith seems so slipshod. Well, it will be easier next time to REALLY EXPECT what I speak to outmanifest.

Also I shall be more careful what I do speak!

—E. L. P.

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